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opens up with the quick strumming of the acoustic guitar and later follows the bass pipes and pan pipes. The piece sets with a major key in common time. The disjunct melody gives off a jumpy sound that gives an imagery of gusty winds. This imagery is further emphasized by the allegretto tempo which makes the feel much more…

Though I do not plan to start a career in the field of Journalism, I would consider journalism opportunities as a hobby or part-time job. My interest in journalism sparked while I was a junior in high school. While attending Paul W. Bryant High School, I also attended the Tuscaloosa Center for Technologies for Broadcasting, Television Production 1, and Television Production 2. My instructor, Ms. Winston, made sure I planned on attending college to major in Journalism or a related field. However,…

Reflection Paper This semester I learned about several resources and information about me that has helped me choose my major and that will benefit me in the future. My interest in technology has allowed me to consider taking classes in computer science and MIS. My interest in creating Excel documents has allowed me to organize my school work and spending habits, which allows me to spend more time focusing on other things. These interests are important to me because they help make my life easier…

I. Fiddle on the Roof 1. Genre: American musical 2. Composer: Jerry Bock 3. Lyrical content: the balance between old cultural traditions and new ones as the world advances at the turn of the 20th century 4. Tessitura 5. Harmony: Simple, but steady tempo 6. Orchestration: horn, trumpet 1, 2, 3 : trombone : accordion : guitar : percussion : 3 violin A-B-C : viola : cello : bass 7. Texture: Simple melody, rich harmony in voice 8. How the music…

Rhythmic breakdown In this figure, a whole note takes a whole in a measure, a half note takes two in a measure, a quarter note takes up four in a measure, an eighth note takes up eight in a measure and a sixteenth note takes up sixteen in a measure. As mentioned earlier, this rhythmic grouping only applies when the bottom number is 4. In a compound meter these rhythmic groupings are quite different. B. Meter- is the systematic grouping of beats and their division in regularly recurring…

Being in a band has let me see some great compositions by Tyler Grant, and Robert Smith. The amount of joy I, and my friends have gotten from playing this music has inspired me to want to compose music. This experience highlights that composing music brings many people joy, helps, and inspires them. As a music composer, one could compose for animation, video games, or movies, to have fun composing while affecting humanity. One profession that involves composing music is an animation score…

that was going on (a baby fell and started crying). No. 4 in C-sharp minor was one that i liked, it was polyphonic, because it sounded like it was racing. No. 5 in - flat Major (“Black Keys”) all 8 fingers are being used and both thumbs. In this piece he was using his thumbs and his right hand had nothing black keys and it still sound polyphonic, because of how fast it was going, but it sounded happy. No. 6 in E-flat Minor sound strange, dark, sad, and is used for voicing exercises. This pieces…

of “The Beatles”, the self-entitled White Album The first song of the album, “Back in the USSR”, written by Paul McCartney, directly parodies and references the Beach Boys, with subtler allusions to Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. It is set in the key of A major and has a 4/4 meter. Song form consists of an intro, four verse sections, each followed by a refrain, a bridge that follows only the second and third refrains, and an outro. The melody is undoubtedly bluesy, but further innovates on…

The climax consists of four measures with basic harmonies in D-flat major before moving into the coda (Figure 3). The climax begins with a tonic triad in second inversion which leads to a vi then a I in first inversion before a ii minor seventh chord in first inversion gives way to the pinnacle harmony of the climax in mm. 60: a V chord with a suspended fourth that does not resolve until a measure and a half later giving us a V7 and resolves naturally to a I. During the Vsus4 harmony, there is a…

The IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43 In order to understand the IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43, it would be empirical to understand Nobre’s first three piano cycles. “According to Bernardo Scarambone, “Ciclos Nordestinos” are Cycles from Northeast Brazil, where Nobre was born and spent part of his life. Nobre had as main goal to preserve his cultural identity as a composer. The first “Ciclo Nordestino Op. 5 was composed in 1959 and dedicated to Mozart de Araújo who was a Nobre’s friend.” The…